New York composer Michael Torke maxes out minimalism in his 'Ecstatic Orange'. In Arnold Schoenberg's 'Transfigured Night' we're plunged into a totally different ecstasy, inspired by Richard Dehmel's poem in which star-crossed lovers experience a moment of incandescent bliss. Michael Nyman's lustful songs 'I Sonetti Lussuriosi' are set to the pornographic poems of Pietro Aretino. And, finally, an arangement of the Pet Shop Boys' dance hit 'I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing', in which singer Neil Tennant expressed the desire to 'take all my clothes off and dance to "The Rite of Spring".'

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